Awkwardness Quotes - Page 2

• Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they’re funny, when you first meet, there’s always a lot of bits and it’s never, ever, ever funny. So basically you have to get through the awkwardness.

  Chris Jericho

  Thinking, Guy, Firsts

  "Is Chris Jericho a Bad Cop in Comedy Central’s ‘Nothing To Report’? His Partner Says No". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Race, Skin Color

  "Gabourey Sidibe is both fan, star when it comes to 'Empire'". The Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

  Lorrie Moore

  Interesting, Stories, Comedy

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• Anger is practical awkwardness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Anger, Practicals

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• My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ill Will, Justice, Office

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

  Jeff Rich

  Nice, Silence, Ifs

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• Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Feelings, Comedy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

  Molly Tarlov

  School, Years, Freshman

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• Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Technique, Elements

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• There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

  Victoria Chang

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Desire

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• We are called to love others. We share the gospel because we love people. And we don't share the gospel because we don't love people. Instead, we wrongly fear them. We don't want to cause awkwardness. We want their respect, and after all, we figure, if we try to share the gospel with them, we'll look foolish! And so we are quiet. We protect our pride at the cost of their souls. In the name of not wanting to look weird, we are content to be complicit in their being lost.

  Mark Dever

  Pride, Names, People

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

  Todd Phillips

  Kissing, Bye, Guy

  Interview With Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

  Marc Jacobs

  Giving, Comfort, Give Me

  "Lost and Found". Interview with Amy Larocca, nymag.com. September 5, 2005.

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• In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mistake, Style, Easy

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• Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Kissing, And Love

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.272, Atlantic Books

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• I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

  Christian Finnegan

  Happiness, Believe, Dark

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, People, Style

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.

  Dov Davidoff

  Disappointment, Lying, Dating

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 22, 2011

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• What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement.

  Christian Finnegan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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